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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. One spam related web page is appearing approximately every three seconds on the Internet according to Sophos’s latest quarterly spam report. Nigerian scammers have launched a new spam campaign sending fake Google Calendar meeting invitations in an attack targeted towards corporate users, security vendor BitDefender warned today.
A fake update claiming to be from MSN Messenger contains a malicious Trojan. Google's Picasa image hosting service is fast-becoming the new tool of choice for spammers to elude e-mail filters. A new spam attack falsely alerts users to download a Microsoft patch in an attempt to install malicious malware. Expect more malware, unwelcome email, and social engineering threats this season. Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. Google and eBay have joined forces to protect users from spam and malicious emails by leveraging an authentication technology called DomainKeys. Spammers are using thousands of Google Groups to spread unwanted email and malware. Security firm Sophos has launched a Spam Pledge to mark the 30th anniversary of junk email, urging users to help stamp out the scourge of spam. A new wave of "3D screensaver" spam is directing recipients to a malware site from a notorious malware gang that had ceased activity in January after their site was attack by a rival group of cybercriminals, researchers at Sunbelt reported. Websense has warned that spam emails have emerged which attempt to dupe recipients into downloading videos of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse in the US but instead deliver an information-stealing trojan to the user's PC. Bogus alerts purporting to be from CNN are luring victims to over 1,000 hacked websites pushing fake, malware-infested Flash Player software, Internet security watchdogs have warned. A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.
Self-styled 'King of Spam' Scott Richter has been ordered to pay US$6m in legal fees and damages for spamming MySpace subscribers in August 2006.
A legitimate attachment containing information about security for the upcoming Beijing Summer Games is also masking a trojan, researchers at MessageLabs said. Spammers preyed on popular current events in May capitalising on the global economic slowdown, petrol prices and natural disasters. Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.
October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms.